Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel, where former Ambassador to the U.S. Yitzhak Rabin was chosen as Premier-designate to succeed Golda Meir, officials spoke apprehensively of what they referred to as Washington's "loving honeymoon with the Arabs." Said one: "What the Americans are doing is not cutting into our flesh; it's just scratching our skin a bit. It has not cost us anything so far. When it does, then we will start screaming." The screaming would presumably start if the U.S. began supplying Egypt with weapons now that Cairo has said it would no longer wholly depend on the Soviet...
Charity in the Flesh...
...name is Charity" is an oft heard truth, and it is this charitable nature that has given birth to our custom of exposing the dead bodies to vultures. A pure Parsi believes in charity and donation even after his soul leaves his body. "Let the bird feed on my flesh and my bones return to Mother Earth." That principle underlies our practice of confining our dead to the dokhmas...
...more than a week, the little band lived on a daily ration of a square of chocolate and a cup of wine. Eventually, as both food and hope dwindled, the survivors reached a decision that any well-fed reader will find difficult to judge. They began to eat the flesh of their dead companions. The grisly diet enabled 16 of them to sustain life for 70 days, until the snows had melted enough for two of the party's strongest members to make a harrowing, ten-day descent in search of help. When helicopters finally reached the mountaintop...
Even after their decision, many of the survivors could not bring themselves to eat human flesh. Finally, a medical student, Roberto Canessa, cut some matchstick-sized slivers from one of the bodies, placed them on the battered aluminum roof of the plane to dry in the sun and then, to prove his resolution, forced himself to eat one. All but two of the others eventually followed his lead. Despite their cannibalism, the boys evolved a careful set of rules to govern their conduct. Food was still rationed, and a series of priorities developed to determine which bodies were...